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δόκι^μ-ος , ον (Dor. α, ον Tab.Heracl.1.103), (δέχομαι)
A.acceptable: hence,
1. of persons, trustworthy, Heraclit.28 (Sup.), Democr. 67; approved, esteemed, Hdt.1.65, al.; “δ. παρά τινι” Id.7.117; δοκιμώτατος Ἑλλάδι most approved by Hellas, her noblest son, E.Supp. 277 (anap.): c. inf., of approved ability to do . . , “δόκιμος δ᾽ οὔτις . . εἴργειν” A.Pers.87 (lyr.).
2. of things, excellent, “τὸ ἔαρ -ώτατον” Hdt.7.162; notable, considerable, “ποταμός” Id.7.129; approved, κριθὰ καθαρὰ δ. Tab.Heracl. l. c.; δ. ἀργύριον legal tender, D.35.24, cf. PLond.3.938.6 (iii A. D.); “ὕμνος” acceptable, Pi.N.3.11.
3. Adv. “-μως” really, genuinely, A.Pers.547 (lyr.), X.Cyr.1.6.7.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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